1. Adjective
Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
2. Adjective
Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
3. Adjective
Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
4. Adjective
Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
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